A summary of things happening in the OpenStreetMap world

weeklyOSM 314

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Mapping

BushmanK feels the need to explain the differences between tag values, value lists and separate keys.

HermannstadtGeographer tries to argue for mapping cell towers in OSM. Though not every comment likes his reasoning.

Kaxtillo points out (automatic translation) the availability of Strava data for OSM mapping and Joost Schouppe explains how he utilizes these GPS traces to map forest trails.

Arun Ganesh summarizes the convention for multilingual name tagging in India.

[1] Grant Slater shows a picture of his high precision OpenStreetMap survey kit.

Community

The user HermannstadtGeographer announces the start of a laboratory for creating the Big Map of Sibiu , Romania and calls for volunteers.

Steve Coast looks for new challenges by finding a private chatroom for GIS professionals and experts, including the most highly ranked luminaries for only 99$. Update: Shortly before our release Steve Coast cancelled the project even though the funding goal had been reached.

Gregor MacLennan writes about Mapeo, a fork of the editor iD, which helps people in the Amazonas to map their neighbourhood.

Mapillary reworked their user interface and the website’s viewer from ground up.

More than 40 Videos from State of the Map US 2016 available now. From twitter feedback, recommendations goes to: Katherine Maher from Wikipedia, Wikipedia Maps, OSM Past & Future from Alan McConchie, Field Papers from Lindsey Jacks, Portable OSM and OpenStreetView from Navicat

Clémence Maret (LaCroix)blogs about Vincent, Vice President of the French OpenStreetMap association and his penchant for hydrant mapping. (Automatictranslation.

Did you know …

… Daniel Hänßgen’s tactile maps? The German newspaper “Die Welt” reported on this work from 2012. (automatic translation). He also wrote a book based on his master’s thesis paperback book named “HaptOSM”.

… the first “Welcome Map” for refugees in Paris? CitizenPost writes about students Blandine Richard of the Sorbonne university, wo programmed a multilingual (5) map with their friends and who would like to develop it further. (Automatic translation)

OSM in the media

#MappingEcuador was a citizen initiative started in response to the earthquake disaster, where people from around the world added data to OpenStreetMap, that would help them not only in cases of natural disasters but also to get a better overview of the surrounding territory. Free maps were generated after the earthquake.

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